Sunday, October 13, 2013

There seems
to be a never ending circle of cyber warfare with authors. I'm not sure
who's getting paid, but I'm next to positive that someone is. On one
hand you have what at first seems to be random trolls, however you'll
soon find that they're in a group. That group has changed it's name
several times in the last six months, but they currently call themselves
the BBA Whisperers.

What They Do and How They Do It

They look for readers
who respond to a review. Anyone who's read this blog for any length of
time knows that they didn't find me through my responding to a review.
That is how they find their victims though. Then they associate you as
quickly as possible to a anti-bullying site called STGRB. I have had the
chance to speak with tons of indie authors who've experienced the wrath
of the trolls. The thing I realized was that 90% of them would be an
emotional wreck if they had nowhere to turn. Not only do they have
somewhere to turn, but the Whisperers are driving them to STGRB.

STGRB

The site appears to be what one thinks it is at
first glance, but once you see they're accepting donations, and you
realize the trolls are dying to associate you with them, it all starts
to look a little strange. You donate your money to a site that is
designed by name to stop the Goodread bullies. They appear to be
defending other writers who've been treated the way they'd been. In the end
they're just turning the never ending cycle of cyber bullying of indie
authors. Why would they want the thing to end? They're being paid for
looking like they want to stop the Goodread bullies. This thing is a
cycle of torture for indie authors that STGRB doesn't want to see end.

The BBA Whisperers

These trolls are clearly the evil
in the whole thing. They're coming after indie authors, or in my case an
indie reviewer, and they'll try to classify you with the STRGB as
quickly as possible. They're like politicians in the way they appear to
hate one another, but they're the same thing (Trolls), and their agenda
is to keep this whole thing going. It's more lucrative than their own
writing careers. I'm not saying a few of them aren't making a buck, but
it's obviously it's not as lucrative as driving out other indies. Some are doing it to eliminate the competition. That has been
made clear several different times. The BBA Whisperers and STGRB might
not actually know they're on the same team, and if that's the case then
the donations are the bulk of the money they're getting. Which would
bring me to this question. If you're not getting paid for this, how
could you devote so much time and effort into the thing?

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